BIRDS — FKINGlLLIUAE — CYANOSPIZA CYANEA, 



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List of specimens. 



CYANOSPIZA CYANEA, Baird. 



Indigo Bird. 



Tanagra cyanta , LiKN. Syst. Nat. I, IT6G, 315. 



Emheriza ci/anca, Gm. Syst. Nat. I, 178B, 876. 



Fnngilla cyanta, Wilson, I, 1811), 100 ; pi. vi, f. 5.— AuD. Orn. Biog. I, 1832, 377 : V, 5(13 ; pi. 74. 



Passtriiia cijanea, ViEiLL. Diet. 



Spi50 ci/onea, Bon. List, 1833.— Ib. Consp. 1850, 474.— Aud. Syn. 1839, 109.— Ib. Birds Ainer. Ill, 1841, 96 ; pi. 



170. 

 'Emberiza cyanella, Gm. I, 1788, 887. 

 .' Emberiza caeruUa, Gm. Sysl. Nat. I, 1788, 876. 

 Indigo bunting, and Blue bunting, Pennant and L.\tham. 



Sp. Cu. — Male. Blue, tinged with ultramarine on tiic lieud, tliroat, and middle of breast ; elsewljero witli verdigris green. 

 Lores and anterior angle of chin velvet black. Wing feathers brown, edged externally with dull bluish brown. 



Female. Brown above ; whitish, obscurely streaked or blotched with brownish yellow, beneath. Immature males similar, 

 variously blotched with blue. 



Length, about 5.75 inches ; wing, nearly 3.00. 



Hab. — Eastern United States to the Missouri ; south to Guatemala. 



In this species, which may be considered the type of the genus, the tail is slightly emarginate; 

 the second quill is longest, the first shorter tlian the fourth. 



One specimen before me has the primary quills white. This is, however, merely an indication 

 of albinism. 



Jnne 19, 1838. 



64 b 



